Just like how people end up living in the bitter, frostbitten cold, other people end up living in hot, arid regions. In the cold you need heat — something easily remedied with proper clothing and heating equipment — but in the heat, you need water, which is something you can’t quite create out of man-made components. However, researchers have created a new special coating that, when applied to cotton, can suck water right out of the air.

Dutch researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology have created a non-stick coating that heals itself when scratched. As far as I can tell, as long as the new coating isn’t completely penetrated, it should continue to heal itself almost indefinitely.

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